Abstract
Poverty is a community stressor that disproportionally affects ethnic minority families. One aspect of programmatic research on poverty focuses on the psychological sense of economic hardship. In a study of 319 African American, European American, and Mexican American urban families, parents completed objective measures of economic status and scales of perceived economic hardship that were adapted from previous research. Measurement models identified a coherent construct of psychological sense of economic hardship that was essentially equivalent for mothers and fathers, English- and Spanish-speaking Mexican Americans, and the 3 ethnic groups. In support of the validity of this construct, relations between objective indicators of economic status and perceived economic hardship showed equivalence across these same groups.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 493-517 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | American journal of community psychology |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2001 |
Keywords
- Assessment
- Economic hardship
- Ethnic minorities
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health(social science)
- Applied Psychology
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health